This unique event revolving around the string quartet is a combination workshop, laboratory,
playground, and master class. Over the course of a week, the Bozzini Quartet and two experienced
composers will observe the work of four up-and-coming composers. Their compositions will be read,
played, assessed, analyzed, worked on, played again, and performed in the closing concert.

Invited Composers

Martin Arnold, Canada

Jennifer Walshe, UK

The Exchange

The Composer’s Kitchen hosts an exchange with the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival,
providing the opportunity for two UK composers to attend the Canadian edition, and two Canadian
composers to attend the UK edition of the Composer’s Kitchen. All four participants attend both
phases:

the seven-day workshop in June 2014 in Montréal, ending with a public laboratory-concert,
and

a four-day follow-up masterclass in Huddersfield, UK in November 2014, to refresh and bring to
maturity the work which was developed in the springtime. This phase closes with a feature concert
at hcmf//.

Application procedure

Participants follow the directions below. Note that we are accepting electronic applications
only.

As a confirmation, send a separate email to office@quatuorbozzini.ca to let us know that you have sent
your application.

Eligibility and Selection

The Composer’s Kitchen 2014 is open to the up-and-coming generation of:

Canadian composers (Canadian citizen or permanent resident), and

United Kingdom composers (born in the UK or foreign nationals who are permanently resident in
the UK)

From all eligible applicants a total of four participants (two from Canada, two from the UK)
will be chosen. The applications will be judged for the originality, creativity, artistic vision,
and craft represented by the compositions submitted. The Bozzini Quartet reserves the right to
select participants. Incomplete applications, or those which do not fulfill the eligibility
criteria will not be submitted to the jury.

Bozzini Lab — Vancouver Workshop 2014 — Call for young
composers

Application procedure — deadline February 24th, 2014

At the School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver

Acclaimed Montréal string quartet Quatuor Bozzini will give an intensive workshop on composing
for strings from May 29th — June 6, 2014, in Vancouver BC. Hosted by the School for the
Contemporary Arts at SFU, the workshop is intended for students who are in undergraduate
composition programs, or who have recently graduated. Besides the quartet, composers Owen
Underhill (SFU) and Christopher Butterfield (UVIC) will act as mentors.

The goals of the workshop are to improve technical skills for contemporary writing for strings
and string quartet, and to provide a supportive environment for visionary compositional ideas.
Those accepted to the workshop will be given composition exercises as a starting point for the
week’s work, which they will be expected to prepare in advance. Finished works for string quartet
are not required by the start of the course.

A public presentation will be held at the end of the week to present work done during the
workshop.

Nine composers will be accepted; cost is CAN $650. Participants will be expected to arrange
their own travel and accommodation. The program will take place in Simon Fraser University’s new
cultural facility, the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, in downtown Vancouver.

Applicants should submit scores and live recordings (if available) of two recent compositions in
any genre; a short outline for a creatively ambitious new work for string quartet; and a resumé,
to: office@quatuorbozzini.ca (see details
below). Deadline for applications to be received is Monday, February 24th, 2014. Participants
will be announced by mid-March.